University Daily Kansan, April 24, 1985 400 SPORTS Page 13 NEWS BRIEFS Replacement named for Zeff The sports information office has announced that part-time assistant Mike Prusinski has been named assistant sports information director. Prusinski replaces her after four years with sports information to relocate with her husband in Philadelphia. Prusinski, 25, has been with the office since January 1, 1984. Before coming to KU, he was an assistant sports information director at Murray State. Softball team playing today "It's good to be working here at KU." Puskiinski said yesterday. "It's a real good situation here and the athletic program is one of the best I've seen." The women's softball team will play Wichita State today at Jayhawk Field. The first game of the double-header will begin at 3 p.m. The Jayhawks boast a 29-11 overall loss. Losses to Oklahoma and Missouri over the weekend dropped their big Eight and gave them second place behind 11-1 Nebraska. The last time Kansas faced Wichita was April to Wichita. KU won both games of the season. Pitcherts Tracy Bunge and Kim Tisdale will be on the mount for KU today. Tisdale is coming off a disappointing weekend. She dropped her record to 13-3 with losses to Oklahoma State and Missouri. Bunge's record is 16-7. Derby winner Riva Ridge dies PARIS, Ky — Riva Ridge, who captured two legs of the 1972 thoroughbred racing Triple Crown and was twice named Horse of the Year has died at the age of 16. A stablemate of 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat, Riva Ridge died Sunday morning at Claiborne Farm after an apparent heart attack. He died just after being bred to his 35th mare of the breeding season. "I was at the track and a friend of mine came up and told me," said Lucien Laurin, who trained both Riva Ridge and Secretariat. "I was shocked. It's a shame." The son of First Landing, Riva Ridge Stakes in 1972. He was named top 2-year-old in 1971 and garnered the 3-year-old honors in 1973. In all, Riva Ridge, who was retired to stud the same day as his better-known stablemate, won 17 of 30 races and earned $1.1 million. In addition to the Triple Crown leg victories, Riva Ridge captured the Blue Grass Stakes, Hollywood Derby and Pimlico-Laurel futurities. Compiled from Kansan staff and United press international reports. Tennis team looks to hold 2nd at Big 8 By MIKE BRENNAN Sports Writer WESTWOOD — When the pairings for the women's Big Eight tennis championships were set Monday, it looked as if Kansas could get all six of its singles players into the finals. get all 80 of his single players into the runes. But KU was unable to achieve that goal during yesterday's matches at Woodside Racquet Club. No. 3 singles player Christine Parr, No. 4 singles player Laura Runnels and No. 6 singles player Marie Hibbard will play in the same respective respective positions today at 1 p.m. The first round of the doubles also were played yesterday and KU placed its No. 2 team of Tracy Treps and Parr and its No. 3 team of Runnels and Hibbard in the finals. The No. 1 team of Barbara Inman and Janelle Bolellen lost and will play for fifth today. RUNNELS, NORMALLY RESERVED after a victory, was so excited about her singles win that she slapped head tennis coach Scott Perelman's hand, which was high above his head. She defeated the Cornhusker's Beverly Roberts 1,6, 6-2, 6-3. Despite losing the first set, Runnels said she knew she was going to win the match after she grabbed a 4-1 lead in the third set. She also liked Roberts' underhand serve. Hibbard played her usual baseline-to- baseline game in defeating Nebraska's Lisa Brooks, 7.5, 6.1. Hibbard said she expected Nebraska to win the state championship and Oklahoma State earlier in the season. "I really wanted to win those next two games, but I got tentative." Runnels said. "I loved her second serve because I could hit a drop shot." But the match that Perelman was most excited about was Parr's. She defeated the Cowbys' No.1 seed Renata Baranski, 6-0, 2-6, 6-3. Baranski was in the finals in the No. 1 singles position last season, and Perelman was in the finals in the No. 2 singles position last season. ball back one more time than she does." "It was Parr's greatest win since I've been here," he said. Parr said, "I was totally nervous all day I knew I could be her her if I played consistently. KU's other second round players. No. 2 singles player Treps and No. 5 singles player Debbie Coleman lost their matches but will play for third place today. ALL BUT ONE of the Jayhawks won their first round matches. Inman, playing at No. 1 singles, lost 6-4, 6-2 to Nebraska's Rudy Gallo. Inman had defeated this past weekend. Perelman said KU had a good day overall. but it would have been better if Inman hadn't lost so badly. "I're really, pretty disappointed," he said. "I would have felt better if Barb would have played well. But don't get me wrong, we're in a nice position." The Jayhawks may be in a nice position individually, but as a team they are narrowly Going into the tournament, KU was in second place with 39 points, four points ahead of Oklahoma. After yesterday's matches, Kansas is ahead of the Sooners by two points. Perelman still has hope for a second/place finish and held a team meeting after the matches to tell the team members exactly what they need to do. "I just told the girls that I wanted them to "come out and play hard." he said. "They've worked hard and deserved to be in the finals." The tournament ends today with the doubles finals at 3 p.m. Several members of the KU baseball team spent yesterday afternoon painting a "Kansas" sign on the outfield fence at Oueieley Field. K.C. wins late battle for victory over Jays Caudilf carried a 4-2 to lead into the top of the ninth but surrendered five runs on four hits, including George Brett's three-run double and Jorge Ortega's two-run homer. By United Press International TORONTO — Considering they're two of the premier firemen in baseball, Dan Qusenberry and Bill Caudill put on about as much training last night as you would ever want to see. ] Quisenberry, asked to nurse a 7-1 lead through the bottom half of the inning, almost handed the game back to the Blue Jays, yielding two runs on three hits and stranding the game-tying run on second base as the Royals held on for an exciting 7-6 victory. "I don't feel comfortable on the mound and and I'm not getting the ball to the corners of "The way I've been throwing, every game is exciting," said Quinseyberry, who was the league leader in saves in each of the last three seasons. "I'm just not throwing the ball CAUDILL WAS FUMING after the game. but it wasn't Brett's double or Orta's homer that had him upset. It was a pitch that struck Wilkie Wilson to load the bases and set up Brett's heroes that had him steamed. "I can take the runs," said Caudell, 3-2. "I can't take a guy leaning over the plate. The ball was over the plate and he just leaned out of it. I couldn't beat him into it. The ump has got to call him out." Trailing 2.1, the Blue Jays scored three runs in the sixth inning. With one out, George Bell singled and advanced to second when starter Bud Black threw a wild pitch. After the fourth inning, Bud Black walked, Wille Upshaw drilled a double off the left-center field fence for two runs. Cavaliers remain alive with win over Celtics Upshaw then scored on throwing error by Upshaw Onix Conception to give the Blue Jay victory. Kansas City took a 2-0 lead in the first on back-to-back RBI doubles by Brett and Orta, but Toronto cut the lead to 2-1 in the first on Bell's RBI single. The Blue Jays scored twice in their half of the ninth on a double by Damosa Garcia, an RBI single by Lloyd Moseby and an RBI double by Tony Fernandez. The Cleveland Cavaliers refuse to go under. By United Press International Powered by 32 points by World B. Free and a Richfield Coliseum crowd of 20,900, the Cavaliers took advantage of Larry Bird's absence to remain alive in the NBA playoffs with a 105-98 victory over the Boston Celtics. The victory was Cleveland's first in nine years. The Celtics led the best-of-five series 2-1. The Celtics had beaten the Cavs 17 straight games, dating to January 1983. Game four is tomorrow night at Richfield Coliseum. Scott Wedman had 30 points for Boston. He started in place of Bird, who has bursitis and bone chips in his right elbow. The only other playoff game Bird had missed was the second game of the 1962-83 semifinals beaten Milwaukee. CLEVELAND LED 76-66 after three Roy Hinson added 21 points, Phil Hubbard 18 and Lonnie Shelton 14 for Cleveland. Kevin McIlleah followed Wedman with 21. Boston Marshals and Robert Parish and 13 from Depins Johnson. quarters. But the defending NBA champions regrouped with an 8-4 burst to start of the fourth quarter to trail 76 74 with 10:17 left. The Cavaliers shot 21-9, graves the Cays an 88-32 lead with 5:37 to 6:09. At San Antonio, Texas, T. R. Dunn, whose traveling violation gave the Spurs a chance to be the game in the final minute, hit a pair of home runs with two seconds remaining to carry Denver. Wedman responded with six points and Parish four as Boston pulled to 9-29 with 3:06 remaining. But Hubbard's 6 points in the final 2:32 sealed the victory for Cleveland. GEORGE GERVIN HAD 30 points for the Spurs while Mike Mitchell and Al Gilmon scored. Four series resume tonight. Philadelphia, ahead 2-0, is at Washington; Milwaukee, leading 2-0, is at Chicago; Detroit, up 2-0, is at Jersey, and Houston, tied 1-1, is at Utah. In another playoff, Denver beat San Antonio 119-112 to take a 2-lead in the heat. It was Denver's first victory at San Antonio in 16 games and only its second since 1978. BASEBALL ALMANAC AMERICAN LEAGUE W 8 L Pct GB Detroit 8 4 667 Milwaukee 8 5 545 Boston 7 6 538 1/2 Baltimore 7 6 538 1/2 Toronto 7 7 500 New York 7 5 455 1/2 Cleveland 5 8 385 Wet California 8 5 615 — Oakland 8 5 538 1 Kansas City 7 6 538 1 Seattle 7 7 500 1$\frac{1}{2}$ Chicago 7 5 500 1$\frac{1}{2}$ Texas 5 8 385 3 Minnesota 5 9 357 1$\frac{1}{2}$ Detroit 4. Cleveland 5. Miami 6. Toronto 7. City of Toronto 8. Montreal 9. Singapore 10. Minneapolis 11. Seattle 12. Chicago 13. Milwaukee 14. Washington 15. Los Angeles Detroit | Terrell | 1.0 | at | Cleveland (Heaton 4:0) | 11:05 a.m. (Moore) (Moore 2-1) at Minnesota (Smithson) (2)-12.15 p.m Kansas City (Saberhagen, 1-1) at Turonto (Kansas City, 1.0) (19.1) 20.3 p.m. (Nipper 0-1) at New York (Gaudry) 10.7 p.m. (Leaf 01) 1. 12.35 p.m. (Audible) (Codified) 2-1) at California (Romanic) 6:40 p.m. Milwaukee (Vuckwich 0-0) at Chicago (Burns 2-0) 7:30 am Ballimore (Dodecker 1-4) at Texas (Rozena 1-2) 7.35 m Oakland at Minnesota, night Detroit at Milwaukee, night Cleveland at Baltimore, night Boston at New York, night W 9 L Pct. GR New York 7 8 4 692 Chicago 9 4 692 Montreal 7 6 358 2% St Louis 7 6 358 2% Pittsburgh 9 4 308 2% Philadelphia 9 4 308 2% WEST Cincinnati 8 6 .571 — Houston 8 6 .571 — Los Angeles 7 7 .533 — Los Angeles 7 8 .533 — Alhambra 6 7 .401 (1) San Francisco 6 7 .401 (1) **Yesterday's results** Montreal 10 Los Angeles 9 San Francisco 21 Los Angeles 1 Chicago 9 Pittsburgh 0 Cincinnati 6 Denver 8 Atlanta 5 San Diego 7 NATIONAL LEAGUE New York (Gooden 20-4) at St. Louis & Anujar 2:10, 12:35 p.m. Philadelphia (Denny 11) at Montreal (D. Smith 20) 12:35 p.m Cincinnati (Solo 3.1) at Houston (Ryan 2.1), 12:35 p.m. Los Angeles | Hesus | 1/2 at San Francisco Lakeview | 1.02 p.m | Chicago (Trot 2-1) at Pittsburgh (Bhoder 0-2) 6:14 Atlanta (Perez 0.2) at San Diego (Hoyt 1.1); 9.0 p.m. Pittsburgh at New York, night Miami at Philadelphia, night Atlanta at Miami, night San Diego at Los Angeles, night Women golfers take 3rd at Big 8 tourney By SUE KONNIK Sports Writer "Everyone gets nervous at these types of tournaments," said Kent Weiser, head women's golf coach. Quesay stomachs are common at big tournaments. Yesterday was no exception. The KU women's golf team competed in the Bie Eight Championship in Manhattan But the women's golf team overcame the nervousness and placed third in the tour- "we cared about ourselves and didn't worry about anybody else." Weiser said, "We cared about everybody." KU played better than five teams, but were out-performed by two. Oklahoma State took first place with 934 points. Missouri compiled 1,001 points and KU was not far behind with, 1,008 points. "WEDEN'T CAREER it, but I am really pleased with the team," he said. "I don't know if I expected them to do so well, but it didn't surprise me." Weiser said he was pleased that the women had gotten the opportunity to perform well in an important tournament. Individually for Kansas, Tina Gnewchwu shot a 79 in the first round, an 82 in the second and an 88 in the third for a 249 total to lead the BCS championship and stands for a 252 total. Maureen Kelly shot a 265. KU will travel to Gearhart, Ore., tomorrow to compete in the Gearhart Invitational April 25-27. The tournament is being hosted by the University of Washington. "We will be facing a lot of teams we have beaten before. Weiser said, "It should be really fun." Kozar's position better after Rozelle's ruling By United Press International NEW YORK — NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle ended the squabble over Bernie Kosar yesterday by giving the University of Miami quarterback the last word on his own Rozelle ruled Kosar, the center of a dispute between four NFL teams, may enter pro football through the league's regular draft. The result is the supplemental draft later in the summer. In giving Kosar the right to choose which draft he wishes to enter, the commissioner opened the way for Kosar to play for either the Iowaland Brown's or the Minnesota Vikings. Kosar's father, Bernie Sr., said the young quarterback would make his intentions The Brown's have first choice in the supplemental draft and they are the team Kosar has already said he would prefer to play for since they are located near his hometown, the Minnesota Vikings had planned to draft Kosar in the first round of the April 30 draft. ROZELLE'S RULING WAS required when both the Vikings and Browns made deals April 19 in hopes of drafting Minnesota received the second pick in the regular draft from Houston, while Cleveland acquired the team in the supplemental draft from Buffalo. Buffalo has already used the first pick in the regular draft by signing Virginia Tech doctor Justin Mackenzie. "I always said we had the strongest case in this whole affair, and I'm glad the Commission agreed." Cleveland owner Art Model Kessler asked. "Is that Bernie Kosar to decide what he wants to do?" "I feel optimistic and confident he'll be playing for the Browns next season." The Vikings and Oliers requested Roselle to rule Kosar eligible for the April 30 draft because he had made public his intention to seriously and had hired an agent — Dr John Gabele. IN HIS RULING, Rozelle declared Kosar must notify the league in writing by midnight Thursday of his intent to graduate this summer in order to be included in the regular draft. Rozelle earlier had suspended the original April 15 deadline. Kosar must graduate before he can sign an NFL contract. If he opts to pass both the regular and supplemental drafts, a decision may be made by the NCAA and the University of Miami. Rozelle meet last week with representatives of the four teams involved with the trades and spoke with Kosar's father and Geletka — the family dentist. "AFTER WEIGHING ALL facts in this matter ... I have determined to apply the rule as written and as applied in the past," was laid in a statement released by the NELF office.